Yes, you will get solid signal strength with just one antenna lead, but most likely you will need another antenna for EVDO like William said.

I have some really good antennas here, so if you fail with others I can send u one.

My antennas are made for this kind of porpuses, it’s a thin sticker antenna with the laed.

I can’t believe you just called her fat. Shame on you. ;) I have seen the WWAN antenna. If you take the USB modem device apart, you essentially have two halves. One half has the PCIe module, but the other half appears to have the antenna and there’s presumably a connection when you have the two halves together. The antenna looks very similar to the one I have, but that’s simply an observation at this point.

I checked out the pics of the disassembled WWAN USB dongle. I wonder if you could just use the antennae from the USB dongle. I couldn’t see what the antenna looked like in the dongle. But there isn’t much room in that little case. Maybe Samantha is fat/big boned enough to fit the USB antennas. I wish I had the usb dongle to take a look.

One thing to remember about antennae. They are optimized for certain wavelengths. A 2.4GHz optimized antenna will possibly work well for multiples of 2.4GHz, but may not work well for other frequencies.

Many antenna are optimized for a quarter wavelength of the 2.4GHz, because it’s physically smaller that way, but they still work well.

I’m not really an RF engineer, I just spend too much time working with them.